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Waylon Jones (Absolute Universe)

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Waylon "Croc" Jones is a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne and the owner of Croc's Gym where he trains.

Waylon grew up in the impoverished neighborhood Crime Alley, alongside his friends Bruce, Ozzie, Harvey, Eddie, and Selina. As an adult he became a professional fighter, eventually becoming AFC champion.[1] Bruce trained with him but ultimately did not enter the AFC.[2] After retiring from fighting he opened Croc's Gym.[3]

After Bruce was almost killed by Black Mask, he went to Croc's Gym. He revealed his secret identity to his friends and asked for their help stopping the Party Animals gang who were attacking the city. Waylon was enraged to learn that Bruce had kept such a secret from them.[1]

Bruce succeeded in foiling the Party Animals, but then disappeared. His friends believed he was dead, however; a month later Bruce approached them at a memorial for Matches Malone, another Crime Alley kid they had grown up with. He told them that he had been investigating Ark M, a private prison being built on an island just off the coast of Gotham. He had asked Matches, a forger, to make him papers so he could sneak onto the work crews building the prison. Matches did so, but also snuck onto the crews himself, taking pictures and videos and discovering that the prison had inmates already despite still being built. He had delivered his findings and the phony papers to Bruce, and then dropped dead, killed by a mysterious biological weapon that made him sweat blood.

Bruce told them that he just wanted to tell them he would get the person who killed Matches and then tried to leave, but they stopped him and told him they needed to talk about Batman. Bruce refused and said he should have kept them out of it; however they each pointed out that he had used their skills and knowledge to help him even before he revealed his identity to them. Bruce left, saying they just needed to stay out of his way, but Waylon warned him that he would die if he continued on his current path.[2]


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  • Waylon adopted both a snake and a crocodile to take care on his gym, with the intention to call the place "Waylon's scales of Gotham".[3]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Absolute Batman #6
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Absolute Batman #7
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Absolute Batman #1


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